Name
Taiji Tonoyama
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1915-10-17
Deathday
1989-04-30 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Kobe, Japon
Biography
Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.
Known For
In the Realm of the Senses
(755 Votes)
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A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to...
Relase Date : 15 Sep, 1976
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Empire of Passion
(140 Votes)
6.846
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his gh...
Relase Date : 6 Sep, 1978
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The Ballad of Narayama
(210 Votes)
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In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village a...
Relase Date : 29 Apr, 1983
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Intentions of Murder
(53 Votes)
7.028
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young ma...
Relase Date : 28 Jun, 1964
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Drunken Angel
(320 Votes)
7.602
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with ...
Relase Date : 27 Apr, 1948
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Vengeance Is Mine
(159 Votes)
7.6
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the polic...
Relase Date : 21 Apr, 1979
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
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Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a ...
Relase Date : 30 Mar, 1968
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1972 It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
- 1964 Onibaba as Ushi
- 1960 The Naked Island as Senta
- 1948 The President and the Shopgirl
- 1981 Fifth Movement
- 1954 Turbid Youth
- 1955 Three Faces
- 1949 Ishimatsu of the Forest as Waretsuku
- 1987 Hachiko as Hashimoto
- 1948 Drunken Angel as Shop Proprietor
- 1983 Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- 1953 Reminiscence
- 1968 Kuroneko as Farmer
- 1959 Good Morning as Pushy Man
- 1971 King of Pornography
- 1983 The Ballad of Narayama as Teruyan
- 1979 Vengeance Is Mine as Tanejiro Shibata
- 1971 Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- 1962 I am the Judge
- 1972 The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 1966 Violence at Noon as School director
- 1956 Dotanba
- 1963 The Insect Woman as Foreman
- 1968 Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
- 1952 Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
- 1973 Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- 1960 Sixteen years old
- 1962 大吉ぼんのう鏡
- 1978 Empire of Passion as Toichiro
- 1967 Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
- 1959 My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- 1962 Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- 1981 Fruits of Passion as Customer
- 1966 Drunken Harbor as Doctor
- 1966 Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
- 1954 Koina no Ginpei
- 1947 Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Photographer
- 1983 Oiran as Hachibei
- 1970 Evil Spirits of Japan as Pachinko owner
- 1977 Seasonal Wind
- 1952 Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- 1981 Edo Porn as Tattooist
- 1979 Golden Partners as Bend master
- 1974 Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya as Tonomura
- 1973 Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby as Shimamura
- 1962 The King
- 1962 Human as Kamegoro
- 1969 Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
- 1957 A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- 1981 Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- 1970 Attack at Daylight as Saeki
- 1968 Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- 1956 快傑耶茶坊
- 1974 Street of Joy as Kofukuya's Owner
- 1973 Hell Riders in Kyoto
- 1974 The Castle of Sand as Publican at Ebisu
- 1977 Ballad of Orin as Mountain Man
- 1957 Who's the Real Killer as Frank
- 1986 Jazz Daimyo as Gensai
- 1959 Whistling in the Morning
- 1970 Yukyo-retsuden
- 1959 Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- 1972 Kanawa as Physiognomist
- 1973 Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa as Ippei
- 1974 Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
- 1974 The Key
- 1971 The Ceremony as Old Chief
- 1960 One Passed Through Hell
- 1975 Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- 1975 Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 as The Master
- 1975 Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- 1975 A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- 1968 East China Sea
- 1974 My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- 1952 Sisters of Nishijin
- 1961 Love's Family Tree
- 1964 The Desperate as Chief Osawa
- 1973 Sex and Fury as Tokuzô Kasai
- 1977 Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow as Sôiku
- 1982 A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- 1969 Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
- 1968 The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- 1978 Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
- 1989 Thousand Cranes
- 1951 Izayoi kaidō
- 1960 Secret
- 1957 Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- 1989 War and Flowers
- 1953 Murahachibu
- 1950 Spring Snow as Yasuji
- 1962 Hageshī kawa
- 1977 Eros Eterna
- 1962 Song of a Traveller
- 1978 Ghost Train
- 1981 Eijanaika as Jyosyuya
- 1951 限りなき情熱
- 1976 In the Realm of the Senses as Old Beggar
- 1980 Child of the Sun
- 1966 Captive's Island
- 1950 Scandal as Aoye's friend
- 1982 Irezumi as Horiatsu
- 1987 Zegen as Shimada
- 1962 Akitsu Hot Springs as Rokusuke
- 1983 The Bored Samurai as Father of Ogin
- 1972 Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- 1963 18 Roughs as Murata
- 1981 Day Dream as Guard
- 1954 Ditch
- 1983 Legend of the Eight Samurai as Hikojii
- 1972 The Rendezvous as Murai
- 1989 Black Rain as Old Priest
- 1970 Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
- 1959 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- 1953 Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- 1985 Nuclear Gypsies
- 1972 Hymn as Harumatsu
- 1971 Silence as Prison guard
- 1960 Irohanihoheto
- 1959 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- 1973 Stray Dog
- 1966 The Little Runaway
- 1955 Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- 1955 The Wolves
- 1963 Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- 1958 Underwater Murder
- 1974 The Last Swordsman
- 1977 The Far Road
- 1954 Cape Ashizuri
- 1981 Tetsugen
- 1980 Nurse's Husband
- 1958 Night Drum
- 1956 Our Town as Shime
- 1959 Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- 1953 Before Dawn as Risaburo
- 1971 Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- 1973 The Heart as S's Father
- 1982 On the Road
- 1963 Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- 1963 Beyond the Green Hills
- 1958 Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- 1965 An Innocent Witch
- 1959 The Human Wall
- 1983 Dark Room as Doctor(医師)
- 1977 Tomorrow Evening
- 1987 River of Fireflies
- 1957 Harbor Rats
- 1988 Tokyo Pop as Grandfather
- 1951 Story of a Beloved Wife
- 1986 Tree Without Leaves
- 1965 Conquest as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- 1970 The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
- 1959 Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- 1964 A Story from Echigo
- 1973 Love Lost in Tears
- 1959 Tokyo no Kodoku
- 1950 Town of Violence as Ango Shindo
- 1973 A Woman’s Road
- 1967 Libido
- 1958 Hobo Village
- 1961 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Kotani
- 1960 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- 1984 Location as Inumaru
- 1948 Great X as Matsushita
- 1947 The Ball at the Anjo House as Yoshida
- 1977 Case of the Disjointed Murder
- 1974 Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- 1962 Farm Girls as Kuranosuke
- 1956 The Shadow of Fear
- 1965 Seisaku's Wife as Retired Man
- 1962 Season of Farewell
- 1958 Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- 1972 The Lucky Status Symbol
- 1971 King of the Widow-Killers
- 1966 The Betrayers Out!
- 1979 The Strangling
- 1973 Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- 1961 Blind Devotion as Hikozo
- 1973 Time Within Memory
- 1963 Mother as Tajima
- 1987 Hawaiian Dream as Shokichi Shimamura
- 1960 Internees of Kampili
- 1941 The Battle of Kawanakajima as Rokuzô Ôkuma
- 1954 The End of a Day
- 1957 The Champion as Pote-chan
- 1956 Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- 1970 Hooligans on Buggies
- 1970 The Revelation of a Geisha
- 1961 Pigs and Battleships as Chen
- 1948 The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- 1956 Love is Lost as Gensaku
- 1951 Clothes of Deception as Kasama
- 1972 Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- 1965 The Start of Life
- 1985 The Seburi Story as Kamezo
- 1980 Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
- 1979 Faraway Tomorrow
- 1982 A Pool Without Water as Pharmacist
- 1973 Did the Red Bird Escape?
- 1962 Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- 1955 The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- 1963 Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- 1966 Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- 1962 Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- 1981 Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
- 1980 Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
- 1960 Wait for Tomorrow as Inosuke Uematsu
- 1964 Intentions of Murder as Beret Musician
- 1962 Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- 1970 Strange Affinity
- 1974 The Homeless
- 1962 The Young and Bad
- 1963 The School Cap
- 1956 Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Doctor Otsuki
- 1962 Nippon no obaachan
- 1953 Tower of Lilies
- 1953 Miniature as Yamada
- 1979 The Fall of Teenager
- 1958 The Boy Who Came Back as Detective Shimamoto
- 1972 Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- 1956 Shiawase wa doko ni as Shokichi
- 1977 The Gate of Youth Part 2
- 1955 Burden of Love as Mr. Yamaguchi
- 1964 The Irresponsible Fool
- 1978 Love and Faith
- 1956 Nikoyon monogatari
- 1964 Samurai from Nowhere
- 1977 The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- 1982 Tora-san, the Expert
- 1979 Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- 1951 The White Orchid
- 1951 Who Will Judge Me?
- 1972 The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- 1988 Sakura-tai Chiru
- 1955 If Indeed One Loves as Bartender (segment 1)
- 1954 The Street Without Sun as Gen'ichi Inoue
- 1988 Tomorrow as Storekeeper
- 1985 Song of the Spring Pony
- 1957 Temptation as Tobe
- 1957 On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- 1966 The Pornographers as Father
- 1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
- 1976 Hobo General
- 1948 Temptation
- 1952 Dedication of the Great Buddha
- 1953 Desire
- 1960 Knock Down
- 1955 Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1971 Onna no Iji as Nakano
- 1955 The Beauty and the Dragon
- 1966 Kokoro no sanmyaku
- 1984 The Horizon as Tanimoto
- 1959 Lucky Dragon No. 5
- 1956 Actress
- 1952 Violence
- 1959 A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
- 1957 Muhō Ichidai
- 1963 Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- 1978 Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
- 1976 Two Harmonicas
- 1961 Shōjo
- 1960 The Cards Will Tell
- 1960 A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- 1954 Wakai hito-tachi
- 1951 The Tale of Genji as Priest
- 1969 Gokudô Petenshi
- 1976 A Cheerful Yakuza
- 1960 Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- 1966 Black Curtain
- 1975 Pimp Heaven as Preacher
- 1968 Wind of Youth
- 1960 My Hometown is the Wild West
- 1963 どん底だって平ちゃらさ
- 1961 Futaridake no taiyō
- 1961 Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
- 1961 Police Precinct Part 17
- 1968 Profound Desires of the Gods as Higa
- 1955 Sisters
- 1951 The Man from the Moon
- 1954 The Valley Between Love and Death
- 1965 Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- 1969 Heat Wave Island
- 1961 The Famous Wanderer
- 1979 The Bride of the Ghost Lake as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
- 1975 Scoundrel Boss
- 1979 The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
- 1964 Onibaba : Film Location
- 1983 Sacred Koya
- 1959 Talented Woman
- 1960 Yakuza sensei
- 1975 青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
- 1963 Violent Street
- 1960 Storming Squadron
- 1965 Escape and the Law
- 1958 Hanayome no teikō as Yoshimaro Akiyama
- 1960 The Last Trump Card as Seitaro Koshimura
- Soon Toumei na kisetsu
- 1984 The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1972 Umarekawatta Tamegorō as Tokuichi Ōnuma
- 1960 The Legendary Hell as Daihachi
- 1952 Taki no Shiraito as Fukuichi
- 1963 Raised on an Island
- 1951 Saijoke no kyoen
- 1959 The Telephone Rings in the Evening
- 1948 The Follower
- 1950 Yume o meshimase as Ton Chiki
- 1981 Magistrate of the Floating World
- 1950 The End of the War
- 1951 Freedom School
- 1951 Aizenbashi
- 1952 Avalanche as Miyabayashi
- 1952 Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- 1954 Snowy Night Duel
- 1976 The Roads Men Travel ( 1 episode ) as Sone
- 1980 A-Un ( 9 episodes )
- 1981 Kinagashi Bugyō ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Ai yori aoku ( 309 episodes ) as 俊界和尚
- 1966 Ohanahan ( 310 episodes ) as 溝呂木老人
- 1981 Pro Hunter ( 1 episode )
